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Grade Four Special Visitor Afternoon

On Thursday afternoon, all of the Grade Four classes held a “special visitor afternoon” to celebrate the netbook program.

Ournetbook programis called CLIC. This stands for Collaborative Learning In Classrooms. The aim of our CLIC afternoon was to celebrate the learning that is happening in Grade Four with the netbooks. Students invited a family member or special visitor to come to the classroom to complete some fun netbook tasks.

Students each made an invitation for the event

In 4KM and 4KJ we use the netbooks every day. We regularly use them in our reading activities and sometimes include them in our writing, maths and inquiry lessons. We also do lots of learning with our books, paper and pens, concrete materials and other learning tools.

The students had a wonderful time sharing a variety of netbook activities with their special visitor.

The menu below shows the tasks everyone completed.

Here are some photos of the afternoon.

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One of the netbook activities was visiting this problem solving post on our class blog. The challenge was to solve the number problem and write a blog comment with the solution. Well done to everyone who had a go at solving the problem! The task came from the NRICH website. There are many solutions to this problem. Check them out here!

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It was wonderful to see so many mums, dads, siblings, grandparents, uncles and aunties learning from the 4KM and 4KJ students.

We thank all of our special visitors for joining us to celebrate the wonderful learning that is happening in our classrooms!

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What was your favourite netbook task from the CLIC afternoon?

What did you teach your special visitor?

What have you learnt through the netbook program so far this year?

Do you have any other ideas for netbook activities that could be done at a future CLIC afternoon?

What a wonderful way to share your learning, and show off your skills! I love this idea, and wonderful too to see so many enthusiastic parents & grandparents joining in and taking time to become involved in that learning.
A very joyful post to share – thankyou!
Mrs Monaghan

I was very impressed with the range of activities you had prepared for your special visitors. When not at school any longer, it can be hard to know what is available for use in the classroom.

Such an experience makes me wonder what might be happening had I still a class of my own. I know I would be exploring many new ways of learning, something I had been doing since first using a computer in class back in 1981.

It can be fun visiting blogs and leaving comments. Some of my comments become so long, or I need to share photos or videos, I have to create a blog post of my own.

There are so many interesting posts being shared around the world it can be a big task visiting as many as possible. Luckily, I’m interested in so many topics, I find it easy to enjoy many posts and can sometimes share extra information with the blogger.

32 years ago is quite a long time. It is close to half my life but is still a little more than half as I am still a little over 5 years away from 64.

I have seen very many changes in computers and other technology in those years and still enjoy the challenge of learning about new equipment. When you decide to be a lifelong learner, challenges keep you thinking. 🙂

Me and My dad liked tagxedo. Tagxedo is a word builder to create shirts, mugs etc.
I told my dad that your netbook is very smart(well not very):lol:
Dad learnt that he could put videos on his computer. I told him to to type it on windows start bar.
Got to go… No wait!…….
From Kyle

My poppy and I enjoyed the CLIC afternoon. He thought that it was a marvelous idea because it’s a great way of people all age’s can learn how to get better at typing, spelling, maths and all other kinds of subjects.

So far this year I have learnt how to type faster, add links to my blog and also I’ve learnt keyboard shortcuts.

Hello 4KM and 4KJ,
I enjoyed the CLIC afternoon a lot. My favourite activity was the typing test. I got 29 words. I taught my dad how to subitise. Throughout the year on our netbooks I have learnt how to write a post, some keyboard shortcuts and lots of other things. For a future activity we could do a post with our special visitor.

I have looked at the solution page to sealed solutions. My dad and I got the right answer. We submitted 8+0.

Thank you very much to the organizers of this special afternoon. Thanks to you it was a very fun afternoon.

What a wonderful afternoon we all had last thursday! I know I had a great time with Charlotte exploring all the different sites and completing all the different tasks that were set for us. I think we got through most of them.

I really enjoyed the typing test and making the clay version of myself, that was quite funny 🙂

Thanks for a great afternoon and keep up all the excellent work on your netbooks grade 4!

My sister Hilal came. I thought no one could come but my sister was free on Thursday.

We got through everything but Ultranet. We got stuck on the envelope question last post. Our favourite was the “oswego speed addition grid” because we got to see who was better at Maths. She was because she had more time. 😆

I was a bit nervous when I had to talk to everyone. Me Olivia and Keira were nervous because we had to talk about what we were going to do and why.